Sweden’s Birgit Nilsson is the world’s reigning Wagnerian soprano. Austria’s Herbert von Karajan has no superior as a conductor of the Ring cycle. Alas, two great melodies do not always pro duce a ...

As I was loosening the spine of the new English translation of Birgit Nilsson's autobiography, I chanced on this unforgettable confession: "That was the first and last time I went on stage without ...

Yo-Yo Ma has become the first instrumentalist to receive the Birgit Nilsson prize, awarded every three years to honour “active artists and institutions who have made a major contribution to the ...

While the Birgit Nilsson foundation is most know for its awarding of a prize to a major artist or organisation – classical music’s largest monetary award – just as important to honouring the spirit of ...

The Met, Bayreuth, and all the other great opera houses of the world fell over themselves to acquire stakes in her special incandescence, but she always returned to her home region. Her parents’ ...

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Nilsson performed “Tosca” numerous times in her career. See rare footage of her with her 1968 co-star, Italian lyric tenor Gianni Raimondi, and hear Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo describe performing a ...

Watch as German operatic tenor Jonas Kaufmann explains why Birgit Nilsson was “an unbelievable force of nature” while English-Italian conductor Antonio Pappano breaks down her 1969 performance of ...

Birgit Nilsson was born 100 years ago, on May 17, 1918, at her parents’ farm in Sweden. By her death in 2005, Nilsson had long been considered the world’s preeminent soprano for the operas of Wagner ...

So, too, does her compatriot and one-time disciple Nina Stemme, making her perhaps the most appropriate laureate of the Birgit Nilsson Prize in terms of carrying on the line (the previous recipients ...